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Self-Immolation in Tibet: Some Reflections on an Unfolding History Self-Immolation in Tibet: Some Reflections on an Unfolding History Katia Buffetrille (E.P.H.E./CRCAO) elf-immolations by fire among Tibetans in contemporary times started in the exile community in 1998 and in Tibet1 in S 2009. Since then, these acts have continued, with rather long interruptions at some points but with a tremendous increase during the years 2011 and 2012. As all the contributions in this special issue show, this phenomenon has taken place in a number of other coun- tries and has in each case a specific history and a possible array of explanations and interpretations. This paper aims at putting the Tibetan self-immolations in context, giving their chronology and highlighting some of the reactions these events have set off. It will also briefly discuss the significance of speaking and writing on a subject such as this, while its history con- tinues to unfold. We have to go back 14 years back to understand the first modern Tibetan self-immolation by fire. In 1998, Thupten Ngodrup, a sixty- year old ex-Buddhist monk from Tashilhunpo monastery (Central Tibet) and ex-soldier (in exile), set himself on fire in Delhi (India). He was about to participate in a hunger strike unto death organised by the Tibetan Youth Congress2 in order, as he said in an interview, “to give his life to bring about peace and fulfilment to his unhappy peo- ple.”3 But before his turn came, while the six hunger strikers were on the 49th day of their movement, the Indian police began their forced removal on April 27. Prevented from fasting unto death, Thupten Ngodrup self-immolated. He was carried to the hospital where the Dalai Lama came to see visit him. The hierarch recognized that Thupten Ngodrup’s “act had 1 In this article, the term Tibet covers the three main Tibetan regions: Central Tibet (U-Tsang), Kham and Amdo, i.e., the entire Tibetan Plateau. 2 The Tibetan Youth Congress is an exile NGO that advocates independence for Tibet. 3 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2008/05/12/remembering-thupten- ngodup/. Katia Buffetrille, “Self-Immolation in Tibet: Some Reflections on an Unfolding History”, Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, no. 25, Décembre 2012, pp. 1-17. 2 Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines created an unprecedented awareness of the Tibetan cause.”4 He was right, as can be seen from the message left by Lama Sobha5 who self- immolated in Darlak (Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qing- hai province) in January 2012. This lama explained, in his recorded testament, that he drew his inspiration from “Thupten Ngodrup and all other Tibetan heroes, who have sacrificed their lives for Tibet and for uniting the Tibetan people in action.”6 On the same day in 1998, while the Dalai Lama was at Thupten Ngodrup’s bedside, the hierarch advised him not to “harbour any feeling of hatred towards the Chinese,”7 thus stressing the importan- ce of the state of mind of the individual at the time of dying in order for him or her to avoid a bad rebirth. In a statement made the day after, the Dalai Lama expressed his disagreement with both actions, fasting unto death and self- immolation, on the grounds that “he was against any form of vio- lence.”8 However, Gandhi to whom the Dalai Lama often refers when speaking about non-violence, or Thích Quảng Đ ức, the Vietnamese monk who self-immolated in 1963 in Saigon, regarded these acts as part of a non-violent struggle. This was also clearly expressed by Thích Nhất Hạnh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, in the open letter he wrote to Martin Luther King in 1963: “To express one’s will by burn- ing oneself is not to commit an act of destruction but to perform an act of construction, that is to say, to suffer and to die for the sake of one’s people.” In his turn, Thích Quảng Độ, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam who is presently under house arrest at a monastery in Hô Chi Minh City, smuggled out a letter of solidarity he wrote to the Dalai Lama in which he expressed his feelings regar- ding self-immolation: “Self-immolation is indeed a tragic and ex- treme act, one that should be avoided at all costs. But there are mo- ments when this ultimate gesture, that of offering one’s body as a torch of compassion to dissipate darkness and ignorance, is the only possible recourse.”9 At the time of Thupten Ngodrup’s self-immolation, everyone was greatly shocked but, as far as I know, the scholarly community did 4 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2008/05/12/remembering-thupten- ngodup/. 5 Sobha is a common pet name of Sonam in Amdo which explains why both spell- ings can be found. 6 https://sites.google.com/site/tibetanpoliticalreview/articles/tibetanlamaurge sunitynationhoodbeforeself-immolating. 7 http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2008/05/12/remembering-thupten- ngodup/. 8 http://www.tibet.to/tyc1998/tyce.htm#09. 9 http://www.tncvonline.com/cms/index.php?op=news_details&id=5586. Self-Immolation in Tibet 3 not reflect upon nor react to the self-immolation itself in spite of the fact that, as far as we know, it was the first time a Tibetan had used this act as a form of protest. Eight years later, on November 23 2006, another Tibetan, Lhakpa Tsering, an activist in the Tibetan Youth Congress, set himself on fire, also in India, this time in Mumbai as a protest against Hu Jintao’s visit to India.10 The next immolation took place in 2009 in Tibet and was to be fol- lowed by many more. We should recall here that an important series of events occurred in Tibet in 2008: that year demonstrations spread all over the Tibetan plateau, both in monasteries and among the lay community. As is well known, the resulting repression was very severe, leading to ar- rests, heavy sentences (including the death penalty), and an even stricter control of the monasteries. Nevertheless, from 2008 onwards, Tibetans in Tibet did not stop expressing their rejection of some Chi- nese policies and they resorted to various peaceful tactics: non- cooperation movements; 11 boycotts; 12 White Wednesdays (lhakar) 13 during which people eat Tibetan food but no meat, speak Tibetan and wear Tibetan clothes; vegetarianism; abandon of monasteries by nuns and monks to escape from the new rules;14 demonstrations in support of the Tibetan language; coded radical poetry; and self- immolations. 10 http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=14875&t=1. 11 For example, Tibetans in February 2012 refused to celebrate New Year (losar) in spite of all attempts by Chinese authorities, by way of money or threat. Instead of the festival, they observed a period of mourning in memory of the self- immolators. 12 http://www.tchrd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=221:f arming-boycott-continues-in-ngaba-village-against-detention-of-fellow-villagers &catid=70:2012-news&Itemid=162 and http://www.tchrd.org/index.php?optio n=com_content&view=article&id=209:tibetans-beaten-arrested-for-protesting- official-corruption&catid=70:2012-news&Itemid=162. 13 In many blogs such as http://lhakardiaries.com/about/, it is written that lhakar, literally meaning “White Wednesday,” that is the “soul’s day of the Dalai Lama.” According to Charles Bell, Portrait of the Dalai Lama. London: Collins, 1946, p. 338, “Everybody has two lucky days and one unlucky day every week. These all depend on what year out of the cycle of twelve animals he was born in. The [13th] Dalai Lama having been born in the Mouse year, his lucky days are Tuesday and Wednesday; his unlucky one is Saturday… The two lucky days in each week are termed the life day (sok-sa; [Tib. srog gza’] and the soul day (la-za [Tib. bla gza’]).” According to Bell, then, the “soul’s day” is called laza (bla gza’) and not lhakar (lha dkar). A Golok informant explained lhakar as “the soul’s day of the Dalai Lama during which Tibetans do not eat meat": the soul day of the 14th Dalai Lama is Wednesday and the adjective kar, refers to karkyong or vegetaria- nism. 14 http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/abandon-01312012130228.html. 4 Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines On February 27 2009, this time in North-Eastern Tibet, in the tradi- tional province of Amdo, Tapey, a young monk from Kīrti monas- tery, self-immolated in the market area of Ngawa (Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan) holding a Tibetan flag with a picture of the Dalai Lama. His gesture took place as a protest after the Chinese authorities forbade a prayer ceremony in his mon- astery. Kīrti monastery, a monastery belonging to the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism,15 and the larger county to which it belongs (Nga- wa county), were soon to become the places where the highest num- ber of self-immolations would occur, possibly, as Kīrti Rinpoche told one day because Ngawa was the first place reached by the Long March in 1935. Many people were killed, many monasteries were destroyed and “these events have caused a wound in the heart of Ngawa people, which is hard to heal.” The consequences of the “Democratic reforms” in 1958 and of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 led to “the wound of the second generation” that created a deep ani- mosity against the Chinese Communist rule. The “wound of the third generation” developed from the various repressive dispositions ta- ken against the monasteries since 1998.16 This radical form of taking one’s own life, almost unheard of in Tibet, was not repeated until two years later, on March 16 2011, when Phuntsok, a monk from the same monastery, set himself on fire on the 3rd anniversary of the 2008 uprising in Ngawa.
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